Letter: Solar customers should pay

I don't care how righteous solar power advocates think they are. If they think they can function independent of their standard utility connection, let them. But if by reducing the amount of power they are taking from the public utilities they are also reducing what they should be paying for infrastructure that keeps them hooked up, it's only logical that they have to pay it some other way. Either that, or not use it.

Should they somehow go scot free from the responsibility, the majority of regular power customers and I would have our rates raised to subsidize their enterprises with the incurred costs that they have got out of paying.

Any thinking person knows that solar power by itself at this stage of the game is unrealistic. They need to pay in whatever way that works for their fair share, or be disconnected entirely. It's absurd to say or write that they are "paying for the sun" when they are still hooked up to an infrastructure that they can't do without. That's what they need to pay for. I'm paying my share; I don't want to end up paying theirs.

This is nothing more than the Koch bros legislating via Americans for Prosperity
and ALEC their own personal agenda.

In Kansas, they have already
unsuccessfully attempted to overturn a mandate that required 20 percent of the
state's
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8:10 a.m. Aug. 4, 2014

Top comment

Curmudgeon

Salt Lake City, UT

So, David, would you also complain about those folks who reduce their power
usage through installing insulation, replacing the electric stove and water
heater with gas appliances, upgrading electric appliances to EnergyStar rated
appliances,
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